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The epistemology that delimits knowledge justified as truth makes part of the discourses that strengthen the idea of the human as center. In this perspective, everything revolves around the instituted, normalized, as well as universalized. However, such outcome, that well explains Descartes as a product of the experience of the self, nature, and history, finds another meaning from the Lacanian subject: that of the subject as determined from a de(sire)centered, that is, by the desire that does not point to homogenization or alienation, but to the experience of a void established in the relationship with the lack. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is Antigone the symbol of disobedience, indignation or uprising? Of ethics? In principle, she seems to drag them all in her act. Among the multiple interpretations that the tragedy has aroused, this article proposes a look at its interpretation in psychoanalysis. Thus, it is important to emphasize that what is striking about this character for psychoanalysis is how his disobedience, and this sort of uprising, has the character of the ethics that Lacan formulated in the sixties in his seminar The Ethics of Psychoanalysis as "never give up on desire". Then, we will see a development that will allow us to account for the springs of the overcoming of any limit and its place in the analytic experience, that is to say, in the tragic dimension of the analytic experience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to study the conception of culture and society derived from the invention of the unconscious and its consequences on the issue of satisfaction. Freud’s myth about the origin of culture, society, law, and moral responds to this problem. It is Jacques Lacan who has recalled and reformulated it from the introduction of a new term in psychoanalysis: the enjoyment (jouissance). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper intends to delve into psychoanalytic ponderations about the condition of angst in the current world. To do so, we start from two positions that are tightly linked: the psychoanalytic clinic and its political relationships. With this in mind, we contemplate the idea of the body as an acoustic box where anguish, as an affection, takes place; and, at the same time, the linking of bodies as they respond to the demand of the symbolic system of culture. In doing this, we intend to problematize the place occupied by desire and its ethics in the boundaries of capitalism and how some effects are produced by the symbolic-economic demands towards the subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents preliminary results of the research “Positions of the psychosis within the social level: symptoms, discourses, social bonds”, accredited and financed by the National University of La Plata. We start with the issue of social effectiveness of certain productions of psychotic subjects; and we work on the question of how these positions outside the discourse might have a transformative impact on established discourses. We then present aspects of two cases constructed from autobiographical material: Hitler and Joyce. We conclude that it is relevant to make a difference between the calculated effects and the subversive effects in the discourses. In both, it is necessary to think about the role that desire plays with respect to social bonds, discourses and sinthome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a conference held in Milan in 1972, Lacan introduced his formulations on capitalist discourse as the substitute for the master’s discourse, which is doomed to explode. On the basis of George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the article seeks to explain the manner in which the capitalist discourse replaces and articulates the master‘s discourse. 1984 illustrates the domination of the Big Other according to the logic of the Big Brother. Brave New World allows us to understand the relation between techno-science and programming, whose result is seduction as a form of control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article carries out a reflection on the invasive tendencies of contemporary capitalism’s production and control technologies. Defining “datification” makes it possible to understand why disclosing personal information may amount to sacrificing our freedom. From a historical perspective, it connects the origins of the industry of consent to the current ominous politics of the unconscious, which reifies subjectivities and aims at incubating the matter of our desires. Finally, in order to complement the thesis of “surveillance capitalism” on the basis of these ideas, the paper suggests the concept of “totalitarian phase of capitalism” to describe the main features of our times. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides a brief psychoanalytical inquiry into the passion of hate and its relation to desire, on the basis of clinical presentations carried out during hospital practice. It evaluates the development of said "affect" in the hysterical structure, mentioning the resources used by medicine to cover up or ignore the discovery of the unconscious. Furthermore, it provides examples through references to the analytical literature, as well as to excerpts from musical compositions or film stories. Finally, we leave in suspense the question that arises during intervention in transference, once the post-Freudian idealizing and schematic resource mentioned throughout the text is set aside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "death of God" has hardly been considered in psychoanalytical terms. On the basis of some Lacanian proposals, the article attempts to clarify whether the expression refers to the end of everything divine or rather as a radical transformation of the relationship to the divine. Likewise, the article seeks to identify the historical roots of this "death" and its effects on the spiritual life of Western peoples. As we shall see, the expression denotes the decline--in our time-- of the inventive capacity linked to desire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Night" is a privileged term in the lexicon of the mystics and it has various meanings. There is an intimate communion among all mystical experiences. The article examines the different modalities of the "night" symbol in the texts of both the Spanish mystics of the Golden Age and those of the Sufis. Our objective is to evince the complexity and ambiguity of the night in relation to the Eros-Thanatos dualism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For Freud in the "Project of Psychology for Neurologists", reality must be understood within the framework of a first encounter: the human baby with an experienced adult. The striking aspect of the Freudian text is that this adult, who is more properly a fellow helper (Nebenmensch), produces pleasure and pain. Thus, the other is constituted by a structural division that will mark the route of the compulsive states of desire and affect, respectively; what is relevant is that reality, as Freud teaches us, is produced by these two compulsive states. We return to the "Project" because it presents an original statement about the relation of the subject with the real, with the truth and with the representation of the world; a relation that does not agree; finally, an impossible relation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The well-known phenomenon of self-fulfilling prophecy is retaken by the author in the light of the Freudian perspectives on destiny and the Lacanian emphasis on the decisiveness of the Other's desire, for the subject. Even though truth is constantly changing and is not restricted to a singular and immobile fact, it is fixed to the phantasy and related to the symptom. The analytical practice, then, more than a search for the truth, is oriented by the real. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What would a desire that is not based on the desire of the Other be like? On the basis of Lacan's formula that "desire is the desire of the Other", the paper poses a question that has to do with analytical practice and its horizon. We address the dimension of a desire based on the necessary identification with the Other, which results from consenting to the relation with the Other and which logically entails alienation. We attempt to describe the perspective, evident since Lacan's early writings, which accounts, first, for a desire originating in alienation and then for the transition to a desire that would be the consequence of the failure of identifications. Our proposal is that this desire, as the effect of the separation from the Other reveals the true identity of the subject and, therefore, the disalienation of capitalist discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is it possible to ensure that the forms of intervention, treatment and nomination of antagonisms, typical to the social link, will not result in new forms of segregation and exclusion? We addressed this question in two respects: first, the paradoxical effects of public policy, which seem to promote alienating forms of subjectivity, and, secondly, the paradoxes of desire, given its inscription in the Other via the small claims and the feelings of apathy and helplessness that it causes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to highlight the ways in which human beings are capable of falling into the trap of aggressiveness and the mechanisms that can be implemented to prevent it. Lacan's concept of acting out [passage à l'acte] establishes an essential way to address this problem, as well as a possible solution based on changing the relationship of the subject to the cause of his desire. We have chosen an example that illustrates this concept: the novel of Japanese writer Mishima, called The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. Following this, we attempt to show the possible ways out in relation to the acting out, for those who make the choice of the experience of psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Is it possible to ensure that the forms of intervention, treatment and nomination of antagonisms, typical to the social link, will not result in new forms of segregation and exclusion? We addressed this question in two respects: first, the paradoxical effects of public policy, which seem to promote alienating forms of subjectivity, and, secondly, the paradoxes of desire, given its inscription in the Other via the small claims and the feelings of apathy and helplessness that it causes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When Freud refers to mourning the death of the father, he deals with its symptomatic, differential expression, according to the clinical structure in question: obsessive reproach and identification with the trace of the paternal symptom. But beyond the hysterical symptom, identification reveals a close link to mourning, whose requirement is the constitution of the object as lost. The Lacanian reading of Hamlet shows the condition that must be met for the father to acquire the status of object of mourning for the son, as well as its effects on the recomposition of desire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem of mourning in Freud arises out of the combination of affection and work. Separating that which is work and that which is affection in mourning makes it possible to locate its ethical dimension and enquire into its operation. How does mourning operate? What does it operate in a subject? Because the dimensions of narcissism, object, and desire are constitutive elements of the problem of mourning, the latter is not foreign to the operation of analysis. The article suggests that analysis is a type of work, which, like mourning, has an end. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article suggests that although it is not a "real" loss, the loss of the father in the Oedipus complex can be considered subject to the process of mourning, because it changes the relationship with the father and implies a renewal of desire. With an illustrative literary text, the paper also shows that the function of the real father is decisive in the mourning of the imaginary father. Finally, by the characteristics of that mourning, it also poses the question of whether that process of mourning reaches an end (that can be related to the end of analysis), or whether, on the contrary, it is interminable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]